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thanks for staying with us a tough stay
alive I'm Sarah Bernard we're learning
about st. Louis Civic Orchestra with my
guests board president Larry Levan in
maestro Edward Dabashi and welcome back
both of you so exciting really
interesting to hear about the 70 years
of history of the st. Louis Civic
Orchestra with very very talented
musicians and how many musicians are in
the orchestra Larry it depends on the
concert in the year but typically
between 60 and 70 musicians and then we
have lots of collaborative groups that
play with us so often the number swells
to 90 100 yeah we've had parkway
ensembles and other arts organizations
in the community play like Alexandra
ballet we just had the great barbershop
quartet vocal spectrum perform with us
we trying to have a lot of different and
diverse folks play with us as as we're
having it this particular concert hey
drew why don't we talk about the
upcoming concert and who are the special
guests this being a jazz inspired
concert we're gonna open the concert
with a medley of Duke Ellington tunes
Duke Ellington was a one of the great
band leaders of the 20th century in fact
by the time he was in his early 20s in
1924 he was already a bandleader and and
this fits right in at the same time
period of our special guests
TJ Muller and his little group called
The Gaslight squares they're gonna come
in and join us so we're gonna start with
the Duke Ellington medley then bring out
TJ Muller and he'll do a set and then
we're going to join together the
orchestra and TJ Miller on a rendition
of Welles again happy days are here
again arranged by one of our board
members Sam Holden and then we come back
after an emission and do three dance
episodes by Leonard Bernstein from on
the town and and with the ever-popular
Gershwin composition called an American
in Paris so is doing the jazz standards
is this a diversion from what your tip
concert might look like her do you often
do a variety of music well this is a bit
of a diversion we try to keep all the
programming under one umbrella of a
style this particular one is jazz very
often will do or typically will do the
classical quote classical style concert
within an overture of solo concerto and
then a symphony but we like to mix it up
and do different things and collaborate
with different people and so the
orchestra committee that determines
programming came up with and an American
jazz concert very nice it sounds
wonderful with your special guests who
are Loco
yes Louis yeah based on their name I
assumed that they were from here no so
okay so the concert is February 23rd
Saturday night 7 p.m. at purser hall at
Logan University yeah someone concert so
only one opportunity one opportunity to
come and tickets are available online
and STL Co org and we have a Facebook
page where we talk about it all and we
provide information and about the
concert and we're doing something
different this time we're putting our
program notes on our website and there's
a podcast between me and maestro on the
on the website as well so you can listen
a little bit in more detail about the
concert very good so that's February
23rd of the next concert is in April
first weekend of April and that's where
we feature our the winners of our
Florence Frager young artist competition
they audition though the December before
and then we choose those who are
deserving to play with us they usually
play a movement of a concerto for their
by virtue of having won and then our
outdoor concert in May yeah perfect okay
so just the orchestra start rehearsing
that April concert right after this one
is yes we start rehearsing the next one
and this is that one's over we start
rehearsing the yeah next one until the
end of season very nice so there's
always something fresh and new for them
and and when rehearsals are once a week
that's a week on Tuesday
night yeah I'm really excited about
Gaslight squares in the Jeff concert two
years ago we did a collaboration with
the brothers Lazarov rock and roll band
and last year one with the jazz edge big
band so so we try to find intersections
with other groups of different genres in
the yeah that's fantastic really great
what's so great to have you both here
today hear more about the Civic
Orchestra and your upcoming concert and
lots of great plans for the year ahead
so thank you so much for coming and our
viewers that stainless Civic Orchestra
is proud to present their first concert
of 2019
American orchestral jazz favorites which
takes place February 23rd at 7 p.m. at
Logan University's purser Hall which is
located 1851 schüttler Road out in West
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